Recent content by Imrix

But have they unfucked the combat system and its obsession with kill-moves rendering multiple-on-one fights into a succession of duels? And have they fixed the lack of unit collision, and how every unit moves in lockstep with itself like a bunch of robots? Those are the questions I REALLY...

Starshatter: The Gathering Storm. By the time I discovered it, it was impossible to buy, so I had to wait until it went open source to play it. It's kind of a space sim, except instead of the usual open world you play as a military pilot moving up from the ranks, from a pilot to a wing...

Honestly, I don't know how I'd deal with it. I like to think I'd be okay with it, but without practice I can't know for sure> One thing I do know is that it's worth doing a spot of research. In particular, if you think polyamorous relationships are doomed because jealousy, I recommend looking...

You know, it occurs to me that the term 'Red Piller' is a lot like 'Social Justice Warrior'. I'm not talking about people here, just definitions. I can see the use in a slang term for having your eyes opened to things mainstream media doesn't like to talk about, just like I can see the use...

TotalBiscuit has consistently impressed me with his honesty and integrity. Aside from that... Escapist (although I'm avoiding MovieBob these days) in general, and GiantBomb. Plus some smaller sites that pique my curiosity.

Off the top of my head, I think anybody involved enough in gaming to be reading the Escapist, and especially anybody involved enough to post here, is totally a gamer.

For a much, much cheaper way to defeat Maexxna - build a Warrior deck, stock up on Charge creatures, weapons and quasi-weapons or damage spells. Kor'kron Elites are your best friends in the whole wide world. This deck has a few essentials that don't fit the theme, though, specifically Voodoo...

The way I heard it, Han Solo's line really is a misuse of jargon - a deliberate, in-universe mistake. In the fourth draft of the original script, Obi-Wan is literally described as reacting "to Solo?s stupid attempt to impress them with obvious misinformation," and even in the final draft the...

I think I saw a little more nuance in Maleficents time bonding with Aurora, or possibly just a different stock progression. Her time meeting and bonding with Aurora didn't really seem like redemption through letting go of her revenge so much as narrowing the focus. The realization that in...

Thing is, on some level I have to rank it. I can't respond to every traumatic event as if it's THE worst thing that could possibly occur. I'm open to the idea that my rankings are wrong, but I have to make them at some point or I'll have no idea how to respond to any particular incident.

Similar, certainly, and I have nothing but sympathy and respect for what the people who grew up at the knee of such stories must have gone through. But of equal intensity? I'm unconvinced. Don't be a drama queen. Mars is smaller than Jupiter, that doesn't mean Mars is small. Something can be...

So, your sympathetic pain for your grandmother's suffering, decades after the fact and second-hand, is equal to hers, who lived through it? You're right, we can't agree.

Of course not, that would be a dick move. But then, I wouldn't expect you to offer the same tenderness and sympathy to the friends and family of a rape victim as I would expect you to offer to the victim themselves. In the same vein, I'm not going to offer you the same sympathy I would to...

No, I just rank them as less traumatising than rape, with a possible exception for torture victims depending on the nature and length of torment. Bullshit. You can ignore something once you realize its nature, but in the connected world we live in, that first point of exposure is all but...

Again, I rank "I nearly suffered *insert horrible fate here*" as a less traumatising experience than "I actually suffered *insert horrible fate here*" Well, tough. We are responsible for the effect we have on those around us. Nobody lives in a social vacuum. If your words are hurtful to somebody...